Senior Backend Engineer, Nightfall AI

• Expertise in one or more systems/high-level programming language (e.g. Python, Go, Java, C++) and the eagerness to learn more
• Experience running scalable (thousands of RPS) and reliable (three 9’s) systems
• Experience with developing complex software systems scaling to substantial data volumes or millions of users with production quality deployment, monitoring and reliability
• Experience in integrating with third party APIs
• Experience with large-scale distributed storage and database systems (SQL or NoSQL, e.g. MySQL, Cassandra)
• Ability to decompose complex business problems and lead a team in solving them
• Data Processing - experience with building and maintaining large scale and/or real-time complex data processing pipelines using Kafka, Hadoop, Hive, Storm, or Zookeeper
• 4+ years of experience

• As a Senior Backend Engineer at Nightfall, you’ll enable us to deliver our platform reliably, securely, and at massive scale. You’ll help architect low latency, real-time microservices that process & detect sensitive data at scale
• Building highly-available and secure authentication and API services
• Maintaining and evolving mission-critical internal databases and services
• Optimizing and operating high volume auto-scaling streaming data services
• Instrumenting streaming data services for visibility into utilization per customer
• Writing and maintaining documentation about internal and public services
• Working with product and other stakeholders to define features

Total funding: $60.3m

Nightfall AI is tackling security challenges posed by the adoption of generative AI and technologies like GPT-4o. Businesses adopting these powerful AI models face extended concerns over sensitive data exposure, prompt injection attacks and model abuse.